Senior SRE Engineer
Finalsite is the preferred website, communications, enrollment, and marketing platform of more than 7,000 schools and school districts in 119 countries around the world. The company’s people, products and services transform how schools connect and engage with their community, recruit students and staff, and fundraise; while managing the complex requirements around data privacy, accessibility, hosting and security. Finalsite products and services include award-winning website designs, a robust content management system, mass communications tools, a powerful enrollment management system, innovative inbound marketing tools, data integration, training, support and marketing consulting. Finalsite is headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, USA with employees who work remotely in nearly every state in the U.S. as well as Europe, South America, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.finalsite.com.
VISION
To build innovative solutions that elevate school engagement.
SUMMARY OF THE ROLE
As a senior SRE, you will evangelize and be responsible for the health, observability, and maintainability of our production environment as well as the associated auxiliary components that drive our day to day business. An ideal candidate would have a background in both software development, with solid groundings in the fundamentals of computer science as well as the systems skills necessary to understand and operate within both contexts.
LOCATION
100% Remote - Anywhere within the Poland - B2B Contract
Finalsite is a global company and to enable strong collaboration, we have established common core working hours. Candidates should be comfortable working from 11:00-19:00 CEST, with core working hours being 16:00-19:00 CEST and also flexible to work on-call.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The ability to evangelize the essence of site reliability in both business and technical terms to a wide variety of audiences that range from non-technical business people to the most technical of engineers. Drive stakeholder buy-in of key metrics such as SLIs/SLOs to new systems/software being built.
A deep understanding of fault tolerance in both software and systems terms, being able to speak to architectural design patterns around both.
A desire to automate everything. Whether that be infrastructure as code or tooling to eliminate toil, automation should be a core focus of your mindset and the elimination of repetitive tasks should be a constant desire in the role.
Natural curiosity. You aren’t simply satisfied with something working, you want to know why it works and how it works.
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Minimum 4-6 years of combined experience serving in either a Cloud, DevOps, SRE, Systems Engineer role.
Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS
Extensive experience with the public cloud (AWS - must have, GCP and/or Azure - nice to have).
Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual overhead and human error
Deep knowledge of workload orchestration and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Terragrunt for consistent, repeatable deployments
CI/CD Experience with platforms such as Gitlab or Jenkins.
Proven track record of being able to support critical production systems with minimal downtime.
Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including routing, DHCP, DNS, and network troubleshooting
Willingness to participate in our 24x7x365 on-call rotation.
Lead incident response efforts, conduct post-incident reviews, and implement preventive measures
Maintain and improve system uptime while balancing feature velocity with stability
Proven track record of mentoring both developers and junior engineers
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement proactive solutions to prevent outages
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively under pressure
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments
Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability and performance
Demonstrated expertise in software development methodologies such as Scrum or SAFe.
Deep understanding of email delivery - SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC will be a plus
Bonus Points:
Helm/Kapitan experience.
Ruby on Rails experience
Golang experience (especially within context of the k8s api).
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT
Finalsite offers 100% fully remote employment opportunities, however, these opportunities are limited to permanent residents of Poland. Current residency, as well as continued residency, within Poland is required to obtain (and retain) employment with Finalsite.
DISCLOSURES
Finalsite is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact Finalsite's People Operations Team. Finalsite is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Finalsite will ensure that persons with disabilities or special needs are provided a reasonable accommodation. Ensure your Finalsite job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of verbal communication and ensure all email correspondence is from a finalsite.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at finalsite.com/jobs.
Senior SRE Engineer
Finalsite is the preferred website, communications, enrollment, and marketing platform of more than 7,000 schools and school districts in 119 countries around the world. The company’s people, products and services transform how schools connect and engage with their community, recruit students and staff, and fundraise; while managing the complex requirements around data privacy, accessibility, hosting and security. Finalsite products and services include award-winning website designs, a robust content management system, mass communications tools, a powerful enrollment management system, innovative inbound marketing tools, data integration, training, support and marketing consulting. Finalsite is headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, USA with employees who work remotely in nearly every state in the U.S. as well as Europe, South America, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.finalsite.com.
VISION
To build innovative solutions that elevate school engagement.
SUMMARY OF THE ROLE
As a senior SRE, you will evangelize and be responsible for the health, observability, and maintainability of our production environment as well as the associated auxiliary components that drive our day to day business. An ideal candidate would have a background in both software development, with solid groundings in the fundamentals of computer science as well as the systems skills necessary to understand and operate within both contexts.
LOCATION
100% Remote - Anywhere within the Poland - B2B Contract
Finalsite is a global company and to enable strong collaboration, we have established common core working hours. Candidates should be comfortable working from 11:00-19:00 CEST, with core working hours being 16:00-19:00 CEST and also flexible to work on-call.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The ability to evangelize the essence of site reliability in both business and technical terms to a wide variety of audiences that range from non-technical business people to the most technical of engineers. Drive stakeholder buy-in of key metrics such as SLIs/SLOs to new systems/software being built.
A deep understanding of fault tolerance in both software and systems terms, being able to speak to architectural design patterns around both.
A desire to automate everything. Whether that be infrastructure as code or tooling to eliminate toil, automation should be a core focus of your mindset and the elimination of repetitive tasks should be a constant desire in the role.
Natural curiosity. You aren’t simply satisfied with something working, you want to know why it works and how it works.
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Minimum 4-6 years of combined experience serving in either a Cloud, DevOps, SRE, Systems Engineer role.
Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS
Extensive experience with the public cloud (AWS - must have, GCP and/or Azure - nice to have).
Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual overhead and human error
Deep knowledge of workload orchestration and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Terragrunt for consistent, repeatable deployments
CI/CD Experience with platforms such as Gitlab or Jenkins.
Proven track record of being able to support critical production systems with minimal downtime.
Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including routing, DHCP, DNS, and network troubleshooting
Willingness to participate in our 24x7x365 on-call rotation.
Lead incident response efforts, conduct post-incident reviews, and implement preventive measures
Maintain and improve system uptime while balancing feature velocity with stability
Proven track record of mentoring both developers and junior engineers
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement proactive solutions to prevent outages
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively under pressure
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments
Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability and performance
Demonstrated expertise in software development methodologies such as Scrum or SAFe.
Deep understanding of email delivery - SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC will be a plus
Bonus Points:
Helm/Kapitan experience.
Ruby on Rails experience
Golang experience (especially within context of the k8s api).
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT
Finalsite offers 100% fully remote employment opportunities, however, these opportunities are limited to permanent residents of Poland. Current residency, as well as continued residency, within Poland is required to obtain (and retain) employment with Finalsite.
DISCLOSURES
Finalsite is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact Finalsite's People Operations Team. Finalsite is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Finalsite will ensure that persons with disabilities or special needs are provided a reasonable accommodation. Ensure your Finalsite job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of verbal communication and ensure all email correspondence is from a finalsite.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at finalsite.com/jobs.